Underwear garment for male use

ABSTRACT

An underwear garment for male use, comprising a main portion housing a pelvic area and/or a pubic area and at least a zone of a hip area of a user, an auxiliary portion positioned centrally and frontally on the main portion with respect to the user and which houses a first anatomical part of male genitals of the user and a supplementary portion connected to the main portion or to the auxiliary portion and which contains a second anatomical part of the genitals of the user that is different to the first anatomical part.

The present invention relates to an underwear garment, preferably formale use, or in other words a clothing accessory wearable by a user ofthe male gender.

As is known, different types of male underwear are worn on differentoccasions and are specialised in containing the male genitals: inparticular, these various types of clothing (underpants, jockey briefs,boxer shorts and so on) have a central frontal pouch positioned such asto contain the genitals.

The pouch in practice defines a separate space with respect to the mainvolume of the garment, which is filled by the part of the bodycorresponding to the pelvis of the person wearing the garment.

The prior art has some practical wearing drawbacks, especially for usesin particularly hot and humid environments or when particular movementconditions are required: in fact, given the particular conformation ofthe male genitals, there is often a containment that is not compatiblewith anatomy and therefore situations of discomfort can arise due toexcessive sweating, over-heating, rubbing or crushing.

The object of the present invention is therefore to obviate the problemsof the prior art with an underwear garment preferably for male use,according to the claims that follow or according to the descriptionbelow.

In greater detail, the invention relates to an underwear garment whichprovides better wearability and greater adaptability to the movementtypes and the profile of the male anatomy, and which therefore offers abetter level of containment, maintenance in position and guarantee ofideal conditions of temperature or humidity in the pubic zone of theuser.

A description now follows of an embodiment of the present invention,denoted in its entirety by reference numeral 1 in the appended drawingswhich illustrate:

FIG. 1 illustrates a schematic frontal view of the invention; and

FIG. 2 illustrates a view in transversal section of the under-garment ofFIG. 1.

The underwear garment of the invention is denoted in its entirety byreference numeral 1 and comprises a main portion (2) which defines arespective main volume adapted to house a pelvic zone and/or a pubiczone of a user; the underwear garment (1) further comprises a hip zoneof a user; the underwear garment (1) further comprises an auxiliaryportion (3) positioned centrally and frontally on the main portion (2)with respect to the user which instead defines an auxiliary volumeconnected to the main volume.

The auxiliary volume is for housing at least a first anatomical part ofmale genitals of the user (mainly, the user's penis).

In order to obtain the advantages of the invention the underwear garment(1) further comprises a supplementary portion (4) connected to the mainportion (2) or the auxiliary portion (3) and which defines asupplementary volume.

The function of this supplementary volume is, in practice, that ofmaking a supplementary volume which is connected to the auxiliary volumedefined by the auxiliary portion (3).

The supplementary containing volume specifically serves to contain asecond anatomical part of the user's genitals that is different to thefirst anatomical part (i.e., the testicles).

In order to give the underwear garment an absolutely identicalappearance to known-type underwear garments, and in any case to affordthe right anatomical location of the various parts of the genitals, theauxiliary portion (3) and the supplementary portion (4) are mutuallycontained one inside another: the drawings show that the auxiliaryportion (3) in fact contains the supplementary portion (4).

From the point of view of the practical realisation, the supplementaryportion (4) and the auxiliary portion (3) are made by means of pouchesconnected to the main portion of the underwear garment respectively by afirst passage section (5) interposed between the main volume and theauxiliary volume and a second passage section (6) interposed between theauxiliary volume and the supplementary volume.

The passage sections are in practice defined by the non-sewn hems of thetwo respective pouches, and according to the various shapes to beobtained can have different geometrical progressions, and can also bemade using various connecting methods of the pouches of the main portion(2) of the underwear garment (seams, heat-welding, gluing and so on).

In order to be comfortably worn and washed, the present underweargarment is at least partially made, and preferably totally made, using atextile material (such as for example stretch cotton and/or lycra and/ora like material).

Still taking into account the characteristics of wearability which thisinvention also must guarantee, alike to the underwear garments of knowntype, stretching means can also be included, acting on the main portion(2) and/or stretching means acting on the auxiliary portion (3) and/orstretching means acting on the supplementary portion (4); these variousstretching means can be made using elastic bands and serve to improveadherence of the underwear garment to the user with respect to the hipzone and/or in the frontal pubic zone.

The invention attains the advantages cited herein above.

In particular, the underwear garment of the invention enables housing,in the relative pouches or internal spaces, the various parts of themale genitals, while keeping them separate and therefore in a betterpositioning (which is at the same time stabler and more comfortable, andwhich obstructs the formation and the stagnating of moisture or sweat).

In equivalent terms, it is clear that this new underwear garment offersa greater level of comfort, a lower exposure of the intimate parts toenvironmental irritations of pressure, rubbing or dampening and, withinthe limits of possibility, even over-heating.

The invention described herein can also be made with very fewtechnical-constructional modifications with respect to known-typeunderwear garments, and therefore has production costs or costs formodification of the existing production lines that are very low and veryeasy to manage.

1. An underwear garment, preferably for male use, comprising: a mainportion (2) defining a main volume adapted to house a pelvic zone and/ora pubic area and at least a hip area of a user; and an auxiliary portion(3) positioned centrally and frontally on the main portion (2) withrespect to the user, said auxiliary portion (3) defining an auxiliaryvolume geometrically connected to the main volume and adapted to houseat least a first anatomical part of male genitals of the user;characterised in that it further comprises a supplementary portion (4)connected to the main portion (2) or to the auxiliary portion (3) anddefining a supplementary volume, said supplementary volume beingconnected to the auxiliary volume defined by the auxiliary portion (3)and being adapted to contain a second anatomical part of the genitals ofthe user, different with respect to the first anatomical part.
 2. Anunderwear garment according to claim 1, characterised in that theauxiliary portion (3) and the supplementary portion (4) are mutuallycontained one inside another, the auxiliary portion (3) preferablycontaining the supplementary portion (4).
 3. An underwear garmentaccording to claim 1, characterised in that the supplementary portion(4) and the auxiliary portion (3) are made by means of pouches connectedto the main portion of the underwear garment respectively by a firstpassage section (5) interposed between the main volume and the auxiliaryvolume and a second passage section (6) interposed between the auxiliaryvolume and the supplementary volume.
 4. An underwear garment accordingto claim 1, characterised in that the underwear garment is at leastpartly made, and preferably totally made, using a textile material, saidtextile material preferably being stretch cotton and/or lycra and/or alike material.
 5. An underwear garment according to claim 1,characterised in that it further comprises stretching means acting onthe main portion (2) and/or stretching means acting on the auxiliaryportion (3) and/or stretching means acting on the supplementary portion(4) and adapted to improve an adherence of the underwear garment on theuser respectively in the hip area and/or in the frontal pubic area ofthe user.